Read more. Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas are officially on strike after the clock struck midnight with no new labor deal in hand. Thirty-six East Coast and Gulf Coast ports shut down as 45,

The strike by unionized dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports has ground coffee shipments to a halt, setting up a supply squeeze given the heavy U.S. reliance on coffee imports.

Tens of thousands of longshoremen went on strike at midnight ET, shutting down major ports along the East and Gulf coasts and choking off deliveries of everything from produce to auto parts.